In force, Mar.[March] 2, 1839.
AN ACT altering, in part, Archer’s addition to Lockport.
1Street permanently established.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That, in order to have Commerce street, in Archer’s addition, connect in a true line,
and be of the same width, viz., eighty feet, with said named street in Lockport proper, as laid off by the State, in Will county, on the Illinois and Michigan canal, said street, in said addition, is hereby laid over and permanently established twenty
feet further west; and the land so thrown off on the east is added to the lots and
blocks on the east side of said Commerce street, to inure and be the property in fee simple, forever, of the present and future owners of the lots bounding on the east side
of said street.
Green street abolished.
Proviso.
Sec. 2. Green street, in said addition, is hereby wholly abolished and forever vacated,
and the land in said street is added to the blocks on said street by a line in centre, making all the lots in the two tier of blocks equal in depth; Provided, it shall be incumbent on the proprietor to procure the assent, in writing, to said
alterations, from the purchasers of lots in said addition; which shall be recorded
in the recorder’s office of Will county. A plat, showing the alteration herein named, may be recorded in said county.
Approved, March 2, 1839.
1On January 29, 1839, William B. Archer introduced HB 240 in the House of Representatives. On February 18, the House referred the bill to a select committee comprised of Archer,
Joseph Naper, and James T. Cunningham. On February 21, the committee reported back the bill with an amendment to which
the House concurred. On February 26, the House passed the bill. On March 1, the Senate passed the bill. On March 2, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State
of Illinois, at their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December
3, 1838 (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1838), 307, 432, 469-70, 487, 523-24, 575, 581-82,
596-97; Journal of the Senate of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at
their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 3, 1838 (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1838), 437, 469-70, 488.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Eleventh General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1839), 260, GA Session: 11-1,